What is Building Bridges?

Building Bridges to a Brighter Tomorrow is a passionate, community-driven initiative dedicated to fostering kindness, love, and acceptance for all.

Events in the series will happen every 4-6 weeks throughout Saline and will feature a different medium through which to experience cultural and personal experiences. Each gathering will happen at a different community location and will feature small group discussions that help us get to know each other better.

Organizers will request a typical donation of $5 per person (subject to change pending material costs). The businesses who are hosting or providing food are doing so partly as a donation to the effort of Building Bridges in our community; please thank them and support them!

Upcoming Community Events

Join us for cultural experiences fostering kindness, love, and acceptance in our community through fun mediums like art, poetry, holiday traditions, dance, and more!

Building Bridges Through Pop Culture

• Date: Sunday, May 4, 2025

• 2:00 pm

• Location: R U Game, 1345 E. Michigan Avenue, Saline, MI

• We will play all kinds of games together, and share things we love about pop culture on Star Wars day - May the fourth be with you!

• $5 per household to cover the cost of games. No refreshments provided this time.

• Bring something from pop culture to share if you wish!

• Register at: https://impact.locable.com/widgets/contact_form_widgets/d6ebf34d-5661-4d9b-aa07-734f4ce7417b

• Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025

• 2:00 pm

• Location: TBD

• Have you served in the armed forces? Has it shaped your mindset and world view? We'll hear stories from veterans, then will share our own personal connections to the military in our country - whether our own service or that of family members.

• Refreshments will be provided. $5 donation requested per household.

• Sunday, August 3, 2025

• 2:00 pm

• Location: TBD

• What genre of music do you love the most? Why? How does it speak to the story of your life? If you could put together a list of songs that would tell your life story or that would be your soundtrack, what would it be?

• Refreshments will be provided. $5 donation requested per household.

Building Bridges Through Music

Building Bridges Through Military Stories

Coming soon...

Building Bridges Book Group: on Deepa Iyer's Book Social Change Now

Saline’s Building Bridges movement is broadening to include a book study. Do you wish that you knew how to move forward and make a difference in our society today? Are you wondering what kind of a role you might play? This book study is for you!

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, lawyer, and advocate for justice. She has spent more than 15 years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

In her book, published in 2022, she developed a model of 10 roles people embody as they work for social justice in their communities and the world, called the social change map. Through exploration of the roles and questions for reflection and discussion, she helps each of us consider who we are and who we want to be.

You’re invited to this journey… the pilot group is meeting now, and we anticipate another group to follow.

To be on the waitlist for the next group reading Social Change Now, fill out the form.

Get In Touch

We'd love to hear from you about our community events.